The World Through Technology: The Possibility of Politics in Modernity
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Abstract
This thesis examines how technology underpins our modern understanding of self and other as political actors.As such, it also functions as an attempt to study modernity and its most salient idiosyncrasies.My paper begins by accepting as a basis the phenomenological approach to fundamental ontology and technology put forward by Martin Heidegger.Drawing on Heidegger, I contend that man and his world have been enframed.In effect, this new world has ushered in a momentous shift in both perspective and understanding that remains to be fully understood.Following this, I venture to pinpoint why the centrality of Death as negate-ive, coupled with curiosity and humankind's insatiable pining for freedom, has delivered man to this technological destiny.In the third chapter, I examine the polis/oikos distinction in modernity, paying particular mind to the social realm and the internet as an appendage of technology.In the latter portion of this chapter, I reason that political action in a world given over to technology is that which exposes, disrupts, and resists the parameters of thought and action determined by technopower.In the final chapter, I examine how modern political institutions stifle the possibility of politically acting.Here, I focus particularly on the public affairs apparatus as antithetical to the common understanding of politics.Accordingly, I conclude by determining that all true political action in the modern age must take place over -and against -technology.iii Acknowledgements To my grandfather, parents, and brothers, who have inspired me enough to keep thinking and creating for a lifetime.For Doug, Joey, and Jordan, who have taught me that humor is therapy, closeness is not a distance, and that life is to be lived, not watched.And, lastly, because of my partner, Keisha, who has shown me immeasurable support, love, and kindness during moments of uncertainty and doubt.Chapters 1, 2, and 3 were initially written for the classes of Professors Newell, Darby, and Jaeger respectively.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".